Roles Quotes · Page 15

I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.

— Peter Dinklage

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

— Anish Kapoor

Interesting roles are difficult to come by.

— Mohnish Bahl

I have always given priority to the gravity of the roles I do.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

I have always been open towards character roles.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

— T. S. Eliot

If it's a good role, I'm happy to play it.

— Peter Jacobson

I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.

— Steve Kanaly

I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's…

— Naomi Oreskes

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

— Brad Warner

I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should…

— Michael Cera

I have been through times when I would audition for roles and not make the cut.

— Sunny Singh

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

— Jenna Fischer

If I need to bulk up for a role, I will do more weights. If I need to slim down for something,…

— Dolph Lundgren

I'm an actor who loves to get physical so any role that allows me to access that is glorious.​

— Grace Lynn Kung

My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles…

— Matthew Specktor

[Invading Iraq] is not the best way to make a safer world in which the United States would be a responsible partner,…

— John Burroughs

The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental…

— Christopher Lasch

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a…

— Ali Partovi

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag…

— Terry Eagleton

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I think Melissa McCarthy is a force of nature. She's just incredible. And it's purely her talent that has rocketed her in…

— Seth Gordon

Anything dark and emotionally complex, I'll do it. You're acting, but when you take an acting role, you have to live it.…

— Melissa George

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a…

— Mohsin Hamid

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we…

— Steven Weinberg

Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating…

— Nichelle Nichols

Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the…

— Victor Turner

The new build will play a vital role in the £1billion regeneration project at Longbridge, providing a strong educational element to the…

— Karren Brady

Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of…

— Raymond Dart

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an…

— Tom Wolfe

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

— Treat Williams

I would love to take up interesting roles if they come my way.

— Richa Chadha

I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer.

— Dan Bejar

I think we all have a role to play in life.

— Jimmy Cliff

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

— PSY

When I see a role I want, I fight for it.

— Deborah Mailman

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

— Grace Kelly

I played teen roles until high definition came out.

— Selma Blair